The journey towards the vision of a new life is filled with peaks and valleys. Monday is filled with renewed dedication to our goals while Thursday makes us question our grip on reality. Some mornings we wake up with a heart of gratitude, and others with a heart filled with the flutters of anxiety. Our daytime inner voice assures us that we are in alignment, while our evening voice begs for release because it feels things will ever change.
But looking back over the past reveals an unsustainable cycle of working tirelessly for unfulfilling rewards and ever increasing demands. The external payouts for our efforts overshadow the internal need for self-love, rest and restoration. We meet at the crossroads of returning to an old life for the sense of security it provides against continuing forward into a destiny shrouded in uncertainty.
The pull to return to something that no longer works can suggest a deeper feeling of business left unfinished or of unhealed wounds. We may want to return to the past life to prove that we are still capable or valuable to something or someone. There may be lingering hurts or disappointments that want to be resolved or a fear that needs to be confronted. These issues can be resolved in absence of the person or situation, but for some the pull seems too great to avoid returning to a toxic and unsustainable past. This crossroads presents the opportunity to ask empowering questions:
- Do I believe that something better exists?
- Am I worthy of something better?
- Is my time better spent worrying about the past or attending to my own empowerment?
- Have I offered myself forgiveness?
In the end, the decision to return to the past or move forward towards a new life becomes a conscious choice. When we choose to move forward, we choose to leave behind the perceptions of others with the understanding that our truth may never come to their light. We leave behind who we thought we could have been inside the toxic and unsustainable arenas of our past. We release judgment and criticism and embrace the overall truth- it is simply time to move on.
Though thoughts of the past may persist, we meet them every time with the same response of acceptance and release. We are no longer controlled by our past image of our future self. We instead stand in the present moment and move forward with gratitude for all of the lessons that brought us here, looking upward and onward into a new destiny.
HEALING AFFIRMATIONS
I invite you now to breathe in a few affirmations to foster our movement into something fresh and inviting. We recognize our lives as progressive, and we heal the areas that would cause us to believe that we are bound to an unsustainable past. So now, let’s breathe in these healing affirmations:
- I am worthy of something better
- I believe that something better is waiting for me
- My personal empowerment is my top priority
- I offer myself complete forgiveness
- I surrender to the natural flow of my life
May you feel seen, may you feel heard, may you feel understood today.
It is released.
Copyright Madeline A. Cameron March 2025
Breathe.Gratitude.Love. 
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